Stray Bullet, Marah Al-Khatib / Zines from Gaza, Coastal Lines press

A collection of eight poems that question notions of mercy and identity formation when children casually die on the streets and under tents. Vices rain upon a society stripped of its being, flayed before international onlookers, and grasping at some distant form of mercy while making every effort to survive. In a land where even prayers are banished from taking root, souls exist like stars without a sky.

About the Author
Marah Al-Khatib is a Palestinian writer living in Gaza. She has been writing poetry since the beginning of the war as an outlet for her pain during the genocide. She was recently published in Revista Gaceta, where her work was translated into Spanish. Marah has also participated with Arablit in a literary translation program. At this time, Marah was supposed to be in her second year of university, but couldn’t enroll as she only recently finished her high school exams due to the genocide.